Controls Technician - programming and building PLC panels

Management Performance Associates; Villa Rica (GA); On-site; USD 39,000 - 55,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

OT pay 1.5x

401K with matching

Company benefits

Competitive hourly rate

Job summary

Management Performance Associates, in the southwest suburban Atlanta area, seeks a skilled Controls Technician for the day shift 7:00am–3:30pm, Monday–Friday. You will build PLC panels and program them, getting automated equipment up and running.

The role involves pneumatics, hydraulics, PLC troubleshooting, panel building, and collaboration with engineers and production to achieve output. Requires at least 6 years of related experience and eligibility to work in the USA without sponsorship.

Qualifications

• Desire at least 6 years of related experience.
• PLC programming with confidence in using context clues within the PLC program.
• Comfortable programming a machine process from scratch.
• Comfortable wiring a 9-lead motor and stress testing windings.
• Identify critical info from motors data plates for specing or programming components.
• Familiarity with sensors: PNP, NPN, loop-powered, dry contact.
• Analog control: 4-20mA and 0-10V signals.
• Ladder logic troubleshooting.
• Panel building.
• Electrical experience.
• Some robotic experience.
• Safety circuit integration.
• Must be authorized to work indefinitely in the USA without sponsorship.

Responsibilities

• Install air logic controls from prints or schematics (pneumatics).
• Troubleshoot hydraulic circuits and components.
• Troubleshoot PLC systems with computer.
• Install, program, or repair programmable controllers and robot controllers.
• Build and maintain fabrication equipment.
• Operate or supervise equipment operation.
• Analyze events within equipment for improvements.
• Collaborate with engineers and production teams to achieve output.
• Perform preventative maintenance and routine upgrades.
• Repair machine controls, systems, and tools as needed.
• Disassemble or re-assemble equipment to replace parts.
• Train others to install, use and service equipment.

Skills

PLC programming

Ladder logic troubleshooting

Panel building

Electrical experience

Robotic experience

Safety circuit integration

6+ years experience

Job description

Major and established company with a huge majority market share in what they manufacture and a good working culture has an opportunity on the day shift which is 7:00am - 3:30pm Monday thru Friday for a Controls Technician in the southwest suburban Atlanta area. The Controls Technician will participate in cell design, along with the integration of controls and installation of automated equipment. Will build PLC panels and then program them as well as get them up and running. The technician is responsible for assisting in configuring, testing, operating, maintaining, servicing, and troubleshooting controls, as well as other automated systems used in production. Some of the responsibilities of the role detailed below:

1. Pneumatics: Install air logic controls from prints or schematics.
2. Hydraulic: Troubleshoot hydraulic circuits containing the following components, check valves, accumulators, cylinders, flow controls, directional control valves, pressure control valves.
3. Troubleshoot PLC systems using computer.
4. Install, program, or repair programmable controllers, and robot controllers.
5. Use knowledge of all fabrication equipment to complete maintenance tasks.
6. Operating the equipment or overseeing the operation of equipment.
7. Analyzing and categorizing events within the equipment.
8. Working closely with engineers and production team to help achieve a desired output.
9. Conducting preventative maintenance, such as routine upgrades and inspections.
10. Repairing machine controls, systems, and tools as needed.
11. Disassembling (or re-assembling) equipment to repair or replace defective parts.
12. Training others to install, use, and service equipment.

The location is southwest suburban Atlanta, GA. There is an attractive hourly rate. OT is paid at time and 1/2. There are major company benefits and an attractive 401K with matching.

Needed experience:

• desire at least 6 years of related experience
• PLC programming with confidence in using context clues within the PLC program
• comfortable with programming a machine process from scratch
• comfortable with wiring a 9-lead motor, and stress testing the motor's windings
• able to identify critical info. from a motors data plate and use the info for specing-out or programming new control components such as contactors, soft starters, and VFDs
• familiarity with sensors: PNP, NPN, loop-powered, and dry contact
• analog control familiarity: signal ranges of 4-20mA and 0-10 volts
• ladder logic troubleshooting
• panel building
• electrical experience
• some robotic experience
• safety circuit integration
• must be authorized to work indefinitely in the USA without sponsorship